The Republican journal., 1887-07-07
Col. Ingersoll's jug.
HOW HE SENT A PRESENT AND GOT A TEMPER
ANCE LECTURE IN REPLY.
From the New York SUM-

ANCE LECTURE IN REPLY.
From the New York Sun.
My dear Colonel You remember, | pre-
sumo, once sending your friend a jug of chrOn-
r whskey bearing this label Of praise to his
enemy:
81 send you some of the most wonderful whis-
key that ever drove skeleton from the feast
or painted landscapes in the brain of man. 1t
is the mingled souls of wheat and corn. In il
you will fad the sunshine and the shadow
that chased each other over the bIowy fields.
the breath of June, the carol of the lark, the
tumu'> rich content, all golden with imprison-
ed light. Drink it, and you will hear the voice
of men and maidcns singing the '.IIarvcst
Home mingled with the laughter of children
Drink it. and you will feel within your blood
the startled dawns, the dreamy, tawny dlsks
liquid JOY has been within the happy slaves of
oak. longing to touch the lips of man.
OF course, colonel. you will be glad to learn
how it and he look to each other.
Well. believing you. he drank of that luz till
1.-THE skeleton it drove from the feast came
and sat with ugly profile on his hearth stone
drank till the landscapes in blossom on the
walls Of his home he pilfcre'l and pawned 10
paint your arid Landscapes in his BRAIN 1t
was ''thc mingled souls of wheat and corn
You icld him: but ere he half had finished. it
stole away the reluctant kernel .;aIncrcd for
@r"win:e children. aa'l it ronurcl ''thc mingled
souls of r'il-,loin- and pauper Twin: to drive
ont the radiant spirits of manhood aud 4 plrn-
tcoiI> life.
Still he hoped. for YOU told him he'd find in
ii sunshine: Yet i'll il he found only raven >hal-
ow>. each Tapping wings blacker than it, elder
fellow shadows that chased each other with
htEzard greed. for both carcass and the i'm
mortal. AMI chased their victim o,ii Of tl,.
4rcai arn-cla. of rich content up {" the rough
pine stool III the dismal garrci. ~ bile close be-
>i''c him they chased into that many shelter
ih' ii>i # on l"> in@ wprnan with the broken
soul. lar i"l'f-linchrl youu. John and litl.
>iars cling Mary. La il. too. he found. not YOUR
i,an>y breath Of june. The r.r"l OF fh larh. AMI
Tia, '"N> "i night thai his tli. rainii.e corn.
l'lii illc stark u:'l blast If Drcrnirr tn, lark
oi the wolf at hi> door. and the nlnul,lrriu,.
laaI', Il ilio ni=hl "f despair.
Then ,"n san. Z" him III the wealth of ,u,,-
nrs AMI auiiimh'> rich content thu, should
IN IT, h. nrrh - l"iir Enurl,un riiali,r. hui il
twimI for him i barren >umincr To- m an.r,
wiui'r and ra.> that hnu thcnl>.>r- Together
~ .'imi'ri>,n,d' darkness.
~ The friend uf NoiIr fa>sinatin. cncln,
df;'ih on TIL. down in tlr fc,icriu. cellar and
~" 'riw iin- >lw'ln>i. h" loaf,I and listened
for Your Harvest HOPE IN: heard ont,
N"rr brutal nan aud nailrn> utter ulaIhllin
hlati 'lh'm. "1 The Na>i'r and caught The mel
'"it of ilI.ir shame ia hra.r. If in-lran som.
LAY. III. Ia, frank ill tin iHp cnll laughter of
lii children around hi> kn.... .lil avn, iLfo
r. ~il,>> m"urnin. died int" the ,i,in. ,.hiid',
wln~i" rr'l vail Tor bread.
If!anh. lra. ia-i Hiia deep he drank Aorr
dr'aiaN l'";Ipn "a i'll deep and fast within his
ih""i n l"li. never one startled dawn. lu, frt-
ever q life 'rlip>"l. The sun Of the future ~
NAY setting. sinking thr"u:.t The lawny du>h>
OF the clo,i!rl mind toward that midnight
which i"rcir> No day into the final Gloom of
The dIunkarl the ELIMINATION that's endless in
il ,ir>ula;ipn,
There. declining foe. yrI find Your friend.
AMI the days Of h> homage 10 vollr lctorn,cd